YKON Game :: June 20, 2010; 2:00 - 7:00 pm :: Eof Gallery, 15 rue Saint Fiacre - Paris 2, M° Grands Boulevards. The YKON Game is a world simulation game for up to 30 players. It’s based on a simple thought experiment: imagine that the world is brought to a complete halt. Everything stops. [...]
Decoding Military Landscapes: A Participatory Workshop to Develop a Public Archival Practice with Javier Arbona (UC Berkeley), Bryan Finoki (Subtopia), Nick Sowers (Soundscrapers) :: June 18, 2010; 10:45 am - 12:15 pm (schedule) :: Part of Toward a Just Metropolis: From Crises to Possibilities :: June 16–20, 2010 :: San Francisco Bay AreaJoin a working [...]
Electricity and the Body in Public Performance — An illustrated lecture by Torino:Margolis :: June 15, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Morbid Anatomy/Observatory, 543 Union Street (at Nevins), Brooklyn, NY.Beginning with the first known public performance by Stephen Gray in 1729 and continuing through the present, scientists and artists have been exploring electricity and the human [...]
Screening of Struggle in Jerash: A film by Eileen Simpson and Ben White :: June 30, 2010; 7:00 - 9:30 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) :: 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, [...]
You are invited to visit the Facade website, and through a simple interface, “paint” a prominent building in the city of Melbourne, Australia, using a series of block patterns and a near-infinite array of colours. The designs will then be projected nightly throughout the duration of The Light in Winter Festival, from June 11 - [...]
FLI Residency, Northwest England :: Call for Artists’ Submissions — Deadline: June 18, 2010; noon.Leading digital arts agency folly and Lanternhouse are delighted to announce a new call for artists’ residency proposals as part of their successful FLI scheme. The FLI Residencies offer support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and [...]
TINT Arts Lab: Join Glittermouse, Aaron Oldenburg, Stuart Dunbar, Jody Zellen, Lossless Processing + Error, Eleana Louka, Lauren McCarthy, and Andrew Norman Wilson in their open ended journey towards a new piece of work.The TINT Arts Lab is a platform that offers the invited artists a space to present a new project in the form [...]
Human Condition: Empathy and Emancipation in Precarious Times with Lida Abdul, Marcel Dzama, Maria Lassnig, Mark Manders, Renzo Martens, Kris Martin, Adrian Paci, Susan Philipsz :: June 12 - September 12, 2010 :: Opening: June 12; 11:00 am (Breakfast with Hannah Arendt. Lecture by Sophie Loidolt) :: Kunsthaus Graz, Lendkai 1, A–8020 Graz, Austria.We are [...]
The Creative Class Doesn’t Exist: Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos in dialogue on artists, precarity and collective experimentation :: July 6, 2010; 6:00 pm :: ARTSPACE, Sydney Australia.In this evening’s talk between the sociologist and philosopher Maurizzio Lazzarato and the artist Angela Melitopoulos, a space opens up for questioning the current place of artists and [...]
Speed Show vol.1: Tele-Internet curated by Aram Bartholl :: June 11, 2010; 9:00 pm - mdinight :: Kottbusser Damm 103, Berlin (map).With Jon Cates (US) - Constant Dullaart (NL) - Dragan Espenschied (DE) - JODI (NL/BE) - Geraldine Juarez (MX) - Tobias Leingruber (DE) - Olia Lialina (RU) - Moddr (NL/AT/RU) - Johannes P [...]
Turbulence Commission: WWW-Enabled Noise Toy by Loud Objects (with funds from the Jerome Foundation):Loud Objects, NYC-based circuit sorcerers, present a wacky way to learn hardware audio programming. The WWW-Enabled Noise Toy invites anyone with a web browser to write their own audio code, program it remotely onto a Noise Toy, and play it live via [...]
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid :: November 25 - December 4, 2010 :: Centre Pompidou, Paris :: 2011 ::Madrid and Berlin :: Film. Video. Multimedia Call for Entries — Deadline: July 10, 2010.The Rencontres Internationales offers more than a simple presentation of the works. It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the [...]
Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing by Janneke Adema, posted on Open Reflections, September 20, 2009“But as I say, let’s play a game of science fiction and imagine for a moment: what would it be like if it were possible to have an academic equivalent to the [...]
Open #19: Beyond Privacy: New Perspectives of the Private and Public Domains, SKOR and NAi Publishers :: Book Launch at Berlin Biennale: June 12, 2010; 4:00 – 6:30 pm :: ‘Beyond Privacy: Desiring DIVIDUALITY’, Lecture by Gerald Raunig :: Elisabeth Villa, Invalidenstrasse 3, 10115 Berlin-Mitte.Privacy, the main theme of Open #19, is a right that [...]
Morgan Currie wrote:“How can the book find an adequate outside with which to assemble in heterogeneity, rather than a world to reproduce” - Deleuze and Guattari.Despite the recent hype around ebooks, the future of publishing remains uncertain. The growth in markets for electronic distribution has resulted in a messy and highly competitive ecology of digital [...]
The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Language in Digital Performance: Inspace: nobody can hear you scream … :: Performances: October 31, 2010 :: Inspace, University of Edinburgh, UK :: Conference: November 1-3, 2010 :: The Hub, Edinburgh, UK Call for Submissions — Deadline: July 31, 2010.The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital [...]
UNTITLED. The Author Entitles Texts By Experimenting With Art. :: Opening: June 18, 2010; 11:00 am :: Kunstverein Medienturm, Josefigasse 1, AT - 8020 Graz, Austria. Nameless, ageless and without descent, seemingly anonymous or the biography as measure of all art production? Starting from the “Death of the Author” (Roland Barthes), the exhibition UNTITLED. The Author [...]
Métamatic Research Initiative: All Art Initiatives :: Keizersgracht 635, 1017 DS Amsterdam, The Netherlands :: Call For Entries — Deadline: September 1 2010 :: Contact Paul Wullems: paul@allartinitiatives.org.The Métamatic Research Initiative is launching a call for entries to commission six individual art works in line with its mission. The initiative welcomes proposals from visual artists [...]
The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken in the central cluster of each one. This is a little unfair to aggressively polycentric cities like Tokyo and Los Angeles, which probably get lower placement than they really deserve because there are gaps where no one took any pictures. The central cluster of each [...]
PSi 16, Performing Publics, will take place in downtown Toronto as part of a collaboration between York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and the Ontario College of Art & Design. The conference will investigate the power of performance to intervene in, reshape, and reinvigorate the public sphere at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We [...]